After Oklahoma and Texas feuded over the future of the Big 12, the Sooners could become the linchpin in future Pac-12 expansion.

BOULDER — Texas and Oklahoma never got along so it’s no real surprise Texas’ meeting with Oklahoma’s brass Sunday failed miserably. The end result is another small step toward Pac-12 expansion.

Baylor, Iowa State and other Big 12 schools may threaten to sue the SEC over it’s acceptance of Texas A&M, but that may not stop Oklahoma and Oklahoma State from heading west. It seems inevitable after Sunday. Texas athletic directors DeLoss Dodds and Chris Plonsky met with Oklahoma officials in an attempt to pursued them to stay in the Big 12.

They refused and according to the Austin American-Statesman, Oklahoma’s board of regents has instructed school president David Boren to seek formal application to the Pac-12. Once Texas A&M becomes a member of the SEC — and that could be a year depending on the strength of the potential lawsuit — Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will make it the Pac-14.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.